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On The Coalition’s Peddling Of Bad News As Good News
Friday, 24 October 2025, 12:47 pm | Gordon Campbell
At what point does a Cabinet minister distorting the statistics on issues in their portfolio amount to a sackable offence? More >>
On Māori Customary Rights, And Why Trump Thinks We Don’t Need AUKUS
Wednesday, 22 October 2025, 12:58 pm | Gordon Campbell
If something isn’t really broken, no wonder people feel suspicious when government promises to “fix” it to the potential benefit of corporate interests. More >>
On Why The Nation Seems To Be Stuck With Christopher Luxon
Monday, 20 October 2025, 1:30 pm | Gordon Campbell
When you wheel out Judith Collins as your weapon of last resort, you’ve already lost the battle for public opinion, and are pitching your messages solely to the party faithful. More >>
On The Government’s Dodgy Claims About Reading Achievement
Thursday, 16 October 2025, 12:51 pm | Gordon Campbell
The spectacular improvements in reading achievement announced by Education Minister Erica Stanford on Monday were almost too good to be true - so it isn’t surprising that the figures justifying those claims don’t stack up. More >>
On New Zealand’s Willing Submission To The Pentagon’s Command And Control
Monday, 13 October 2025, 1:11 pm | Gordon Campbell
The latest new-fangled Pentagon weapons often don’t work anywhere near as well as advertised. However, and as the F-35 saga has shown, the arms industry can still make mountains of money out of its unkept promises. More >>
On Our Tanking Economy, And US Vigilante Justice
Friday, 10 October 2025, 4:05 pm | Gordon Campbell
Imagine your house has a plumbing problem. A plumbing firm tendering for the job assures you that hey, no problem they can fix it, so you hire them. Two years down the track they’ve actually made things worse. More >>
On Luxon Advising Young People To Get Out While They Still Can
Wednesday, 8 October 2025, 1:08 pm | Gordon Campbell
If anyone under 35 still had mixed feelings about leaving New Zealand to build a future elsewhere, PM Christopher Luxon probably sealed the deal this week with his comments about the youth job market. More >>
On The Social Media Ban For Young Kids
Monday, 6 October 2025, 12:36 pm | Gordon Campbell
Young people have been going to the dogs ever since oh, 1912. The proposed social media ban for under 16 year olds is but the latest attempt to shield kids (a) from worldly temptation and (b) from the harms that can befall them on the road. More >>
On The Bogus Peace Plan Being Imposed On Palestine
Wednesday, 1 October 2025, 1:08 pm | Gordon Campbell
Can you remember where you were at 7.25am on Tuesday morning at the dawning of what Donald Trump heralded as “one of the great days ever in civilisation?” Because you will want to be able to tell your grandchildren, right? More >>
On The Shameful, Incompetent Decision On Palestine
Monday, 29 September 2025, 12:40 pm | Gordon Campbell
Given the daily horrors of the Gaza genocide, there could hardly be a more appropriate time for New Zealand to join the community of nations in recognising that Palestine – and Palestinians – have a right to exist. More >>
On Sickness Leave, And On Our Muted Call On Statehood For Palestine
Thursday, 25 September 2025, 12:15 pm | Gordon Campbell
Sickness doesn’t work part-time, which is one of the design flaws in the government plans to amend the Holidays Act. More >>
On Sudan’s Largely Forgotten War
Tuesday, 23 September 2025, 12:23 pm | Gordon Campbell
For the past three years, Western media outlets have been focussed on the wars in Gaza and Ukraine (and on the US vs China trade rivalry) to the exclusion of almost every other conflict. The civil war in Sudan has been all but ignored, despite the ... More >>
On Our Recognition Of Palestine, And Those $70 Million Concert Subsidies
Thursday, 18 September 2025, 12:17 pm | Gordon Campbell
Thankfully, the end is in sight for the government’s dance of the seven veils over recognising the state of Palestine, and for Labour’s rampant indecision about the wisdom of endorsing a capital gains tax. More >>
On The Phillips Kids And Why It's OK To Not Mourn Charlie Kirk
Monday, 15 September 2025, 1:17 pm | Gordon Campbell
No bread, all circuses. Allegedly, the cupboard is bare when it comes to putting extra money on the table to offer nurses, teachers and junior doctors the wages (and staffing relief) that they deserve, and which might stop some of them from leaving More >>
On Playing Performative Politics While The Economy (And The Public Health System) Burns
Thursday, 11 September 2025, 1:11 pm | Gordon Campbell
As the old saying goes, “With your eyes, you enter the world. But with your ears, the world enters you.” This may explain why hearing the familiar cadences of certain politicians on the radio can trigger a visceral reaction. More >>
On The Decline Of Winston Peters, And The Attacks On Helen Clark
Tuesday, 9 September 2025, 12:42 pm | Gordon Campbell
As usual, last weekend’s New Zealand First conference in Palmerston North was very much about the Dear Leader. Alas, and like many other gentlemen of advancing years, Winston Peters has turned into one of the people that his younger self used to rail ... More >>
On Why Data Centres Are Not Your (Or The Planet’s) Friend
Thursday, 4 September 2025, 12:48 pm | Gordon Campbell
It sounds too good to be true. A giant multinational mothership – Amazon Web Services aka AWS – it supposedly intent on spending $7.5 billion here in building and operating a cluster of state-of-the-art data centres likely to create 1,000 fulltime jobs and ... More >>
On Why The Government Isn’t Fixing The Cost Of Living Crisis
Tuesday, 2 September 2025, 12:08 pm | Gordon Campbell
These are the perennial political questions that every incumbent government has to face. Do people feel better/wealthier/more secure now than they were three years ago? Not much, it seems. More >>
On ACT’s Fake Defence Of Equality
Thursday, 28 August 2025, 12:48 pm | Gordon Campbell
For people blessed with privilege, their head start becomes so normalised that the advantages of wealth, better education, good housing, better healthcare, white skin and maleness are invisible to them. Many of them really seem to think their success ... More >>
On A Troubling Innovation In Healthcare, And Moral Inertia Over Gaza
Tuesday, 26 August 2025, 12:15 pm | Gordon Campbell
In China during the Cultural Revolution, “barefoot doctors” would be trained in the basics of healthcare, and then sent off to work in rural areas where fully trained urban doctors would not settle. This isn’t an idea that has ever got much ... More >>
